Mastodon Quick Start
There’s been a lot of talk of mastodon recently and folks are trying to figure out which instance to join or if they should start their own. Ultimately, I jo...
2022
Tea Blends
PMS and Cramp Tea Cramp bark Raspberry leaf Yarrow Lemongrass Nettle Oat straw Peppermint Horsetail Migraine Tea Feverfew Meadowswe...
2021
Journal Pages
General layout I follow for my journal pages
keyboards
Keyboard: Anne Pro II Keycaps: DSA Astrolokeys Switches: Cherry MX Red Keyboar...
Journal Supplies
Stickers Jacquelin Deleon Roy the Art Dash of Pep White Stag 13th Press Vicki Sigh Slumptown Supply Co. Dusty-Cat Merchandise Meyoco Uni...
My overly complicated desk setup
I would love to have two desks, two rooms, two entirely separate spaces for my work and non-work. However, that’s not the reality of being a person that rent...
2020
2020 in Review
All my favorite things from 2020. Not necessarily things that didn’t exist before this year, but things that I discovered during this rather trying year.
secular green witchcraft
Social Justice Witch
2018
Back to Top ↑2016
Back to Top ↑2015
Blender Rigify to Unity Ragdoll
Some files to help you along:
What I learned from working on a game every day for 30+ days
As of writing my github commit streak is 37 days. I didn’t start out thinking about trying to work on something everyday - I just wanted to work on a game in...
Bernoulli and Ada sitting in a tree…
Ada Lovelace is credited with writing the very first computer program. This program was for Babbage’s Analytical Engine and calculated Bernoulli numbers.
Pride, Prejudice, Dungeons, and Dragons
I’ve worked a bit in the past with Markov chains, but recently they’ve become really popular for creating twitter bots. However, I wanted to try something a ...
My LED Heart
I recently took my first dive into soldering with Adafruit’s MiniPOV 3 Kit. To my surprise I got it working and also didn’t burn myself in the process.
Phasers set to kill
I like trying out a lot of different game frameworks and seeing how they stack up to each other. My current favorite is LÖVE which is really awesome for desk...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release a Game
I’ve been working on small games for quite awhile now, but I never thought they were good enough or interesting enough for me to actually release into the wi...
2014
Working Remotely
I’ve been working remotely for more than a year now. There’s a lot of pitfalls that people warn you about when you start working remotely, mostly loneliness ...
Learn to Code
Writing code is a creative act.— Lindsey Bieda (@lindseybieda) July 5, 2014
Stages of Dealing with Sexism in Tech
1. Denial “There is no sexism problem they’re just being over sensitive.”
The pipeline problem and attrition
Usually we model population growth with this basic model:
I LÖVE the rain
Note: The following article is about love 0.9.0 which includes a couple changes to the particle system so the example code won’t work anything below 0.9.0
2013
A Little Bit of Animated Sprite LÖVE
I’ve been playing around with LÖVE lately and making a game with it. One of first problems I decided to solve was animated sprites so I decided to make an “o...
I’m not immune to the wrongs of white feminism
Yesterday there was some discussion regarding the usage of “intersectional feminist” by white women and by the end of the discussion and by reading this (ful...
When it’s death by 1000 paper cuts the little things count
I learned early that sometimes being a software engineer means death by 1000 cuts because you don’t have the power to make it stop. Even the tiniest little ...
On accepting privilege
When people say ‘privilege’ they can mean many different things. For the rest of the article when I talk about privilege I am using the social justice defini...
Config and Generators in Gems
If you’ve written a gem at some point you might want to have configuration options for those people using the gem. Luckily, this is relatively easy to do wit...
How to Gem like Jem
I’ve been looking around for a super quick start guide to first gem using bundler step-by-step. I haven’t found one so I decided to document my own process. ...
Answering the sexism question
“Just how bad is the sexism,” a woman asks me. She’s just starting to learn programming and looking to get into the field. She wants to know just what she is...
Abuse of the Abuse Button
TW: I will be talking about abuse and posting and discussing fairly terrible examples.
coding as play
Side projects are important to a programmer. They are often the only means for expanding skill sets outside of work or school lives. However, side projects c...
How to read papers
When I started grad school lots of people had lot of advice for how to read academic papers. Recently, I found a blog entry that hits on the core of what eve...
You have no idea what a lynch mob is — so stop saying it
Words, believe it or not, have meanings. Lately, many people have been using “lynch mob” to refer to a group of individuals calling people out for bad, disre...
Self-Reprogramming: Overcoming Stereotype threat and impostor Syndrome
First a couple definitions;
On facts, learning, and reality
What we hold as facts or truth is what we have been told or by some other means gone out of our way to learn. As you learn more your idea of what is true cha...
2012
Git collaboration fun for beginners
It’s pretty easy to get started using git. TryGit is a really awesome introduction to the basic commands to get you started using git for version control. Ho...
In the case of Brit Ruby we all lose
Let me start by saying that I am constantly pushing for more diverse representation in the technology community. There have been a number of cases where peop...
The First Step
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action. - Emma Goldman
Git Shared Repo Woes
If you’ve ever gotten when trying to push to a shared repo:
We Need You
We have all been there. We have all been made fun of, ostracized, and made to feel like we don’t belong at one point in our lives. Many of us have used these...
2011
Hard having a female avatar on the internet?
Is it hard having a female avatar on the internet? Do people take your arguments less seriously or sexually harass you. Never fear! The internet has the cure.
A Game in 24 Hours
Iron Trotter without sound:
Doing Good to Make Us Better
“It’s such a transformative field for society as a whole. And without the involvement of a diverse group of people, the results of what we do are not goin...
The Elephant in the Computer Lab
The lack of women in the computing fields is something that is surprisingly controversial. I’ve dug through countless websites and threads following the disc...
Definition: Code Literacy
literacy -n 1. the ability to read and write 2. the ability to use language proficiently - World English Dictionary
Examining the Existing Attempts to Increase Code Literacy
Increasing code literacy has always been a real challenge and it is one more people are trying to solve now that there are fewer people going into the comput...
The Importance of a Code Literate Culture
Note: I’ve moved the entire comment system over to disqus, the old comments on this entry have been archived here.
rstat.us share bookmarklet
Most sites aren’t going to have the ability to automatically share content on rstat.us. So, I decided to roll out a short and sweet bookmarklet to allow peop...
rstat.us: building a community on a community
Recently some friends of mine along with myself found it desirable to move away from Twitter based on their policies and terms of service. Each of the existi...
Tweeting from C#
Tweeting from any chunk of code has a slight increase in difficulty since all authentication to twitter must now be done with OAuth. Luckily there’s a wide v...
An Interactive View of Prison Populations Using RGraph
RGraph is a toolkit for the creation of HTML5 canvas graphs. One of the most beneficial aspects of it is that it allows for user interaction with the graph d...
2010
Fun with Narwhals, Corn, and D
This weekend I took part in a game programming competition at PITT, OSGCC. My team members (James LL and Jackie Kircher) and myself were given the themes of ...
What the hell is an exokernel?
I’ve worked a little bit on the exokernel project XOmB and very often I struggle to explain exactly what an exokernel is. So, here it is in simple to underst...
Ada Lovelace and Women in Computing Today
Ada Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer. In the world of computer science today it’s almost astonishing that computer programming co...
2009
Making Sense and Nonsense of Markov Chains
Andrey Markov is known for two things being a Russian Mathematician and having amazing facial hair (well probably not the latter, but I’d love to think so). ...
Papers: Dynamic Programming with Zombies and Pirates
Dynamic Programming was developed by Richard Bellman while he was working for The RAND Corporation in the 1950’s. During this time The RAND Corporation was e...